Nicolas De Montreux

Theatre Of France - Historic Overview - Renaissance Theatre
... The guild "les Confrères de la Passion" had exclusive rights to theatrical productions of mystery plays in Paris in 1548, fear of violence or blasphemy resulting from the growing ... Another guild, the "Enfants Sans-Souci" was in charge of farces and soties, as too the "Clercs de la Basoche" who also performed morality plays ... Like the "Confrères de la Passion", "la Basoche" came under political scrutiny (plays had to be authorized by a review board masks or characters depicting living persons were not permitted), and ...

French Renaissance Literature - Long Prose Fiction
... such as Les Quatre fils Aymon (or Renaud de Montauban), Fierabras, Ogier le Danois, Perceforest and Galien le Réthoré ... most notably the Hispano-Portuguese multi-volume adventure novels Amadis de Gaule, Palmerin d'Olive, Primaléon de Grèce and others like them ... Amadis of Gaul — in its celebrated French translation/adaptation by Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts — became the de facto code of conduct of the French court from Francis I through ...

Nicolas De Montreux - Works
... Montreux's vast corpus spans theater, the novel, the pastoral, history, poetry and spiritual reflection and he shows a pronounced preoccupation with moral questions (such as ... With Béroalde de Verville, Montreux represents a literature of transition from the Valois court (and the generation of "La Pléiade") to the Bourbon ... Montreux's first work was published at the age of 16 (a French adaptation from Italian of the 16th volume of Amadis of Gaul, 1577) ...